Thanks Jessica

Now you point to it, this is clearly the URI/URL to use, since this is the
form that the LoC use in their own linked data.

cheers
stuart
--
...let us be heard from red core to black sky


On Tue, 28 May 2024 at 01:27, Jessica Ye <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Stuart,
>
> I think you're trying to look for URIs
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier>. The LOC URI
> for "Graham, Kennedy" is http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98087045.
> You
> can access the URIs for LOC entities through the pages you linked by
> clicking on the "LC Authorities & Vocabularies" link in the "View this
> record in:" section.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> *Jessica Ye *(she/they)
> Digital Archivist, Archives & Special Collections
> Toronto Metropolitan University
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>
> *Toronto is in the 'Dish With One Spoon Territory’. The Dish With One Spoon
> is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas and Haudenosaunee that
> bound them to share the territory and protect the land. Subsequent
> Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers have been
> invited into this treaty in the spirit of peace, friendship and respect.*
>
>
> On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 5:39 AM Stuart A. Yeates <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm working on on tidying LCCNs and VIAFs in wikidata (so they can be
> > picked up by the new ExLibris PRIMO's person-entities stuff in sandbox
> > right now) and have a question about URLs on https://lccn.loc.gov/
> >
> > Coming from the semantic web world I understood permalinks as single URLs
> > uniquely identifying a thing and the homepage of https://lccn.loc.gov/
> > suggests that this is the case here too.
> >
> > But it's pretty trivial to find families of URLs which are all the
> "same",
> > breaching the uniqueness, vis:
> >
> > https://lccn.loc.gov/n98087045
> > https://lccn.loc.gov/n%2098087045
> > https://lccn.loc.gov/n%20%2098087045
> >
> > Shouldn't the last two just redirect to the first, if they need to not
> just
> > error out?
> >
> > cheers
> > stuart
> > --
> > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
> >
>